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    The UgandaTanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War (Kiswahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, was fought between...
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    dictatorship. Amin was overthrown in 1979 following the Uganda-Tanzania War, but his loyalists started the Bush War by launching an insurgency in the West Nile region...
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  • The UgandaTanzania War of 1978–79 included an air campaign, as the air forces of Uganda and Tanzania battled for air superiority and launched bombing...
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  • an important role for Uganda during the UgandaTanzania War of 1978–1979. Before this conflict, the Second Republic of Uganda under President Idi Amin...
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  • accompanying military wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA). UNLA fought alongside Tanzanian forces in the UgandaTanzania War that led to the overthrow...
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    of Uganda was an armed attempt by Ugandan insurgents, supported by Tanzania, to overthrow the regime of Idi Amin. Under the orders of former Ugandan President...
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    not all equipment was serviceable.' War broke out between Uganda and Tanzania in October 1978, with several Ugandan attacks across the border culminating...
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  • result of the Uganda-Tanzania War. After a series of other leaders since Amin's fall, Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986 and has led Uganda since that...
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    to annex Tanzania's Kagera Region in 1978. The Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere ordered his troops to invade Uganda in response. Tanzanian Army and...
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    to four FT-6s were also delivered in 1982. Tanzanian F-6s participated in the 1978–1979 Uganda-Tanzania War. However, they aren't known to have been involved...
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    reserves. In course of the UgandaTanzania War, Uganda Army troops and Tanzanian soldiers hunted for food and profit across Uganda, causing further environmental...
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  • Isaac Maliyamungu (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    the UgandaTanzania War's outbreak in 1978, Maliyamungu held important military commands, but had little success in combat against the Tanzania People's...
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    campaign of the UgandaTanzania War. Its pilots and technicians scattered, many fleeing abroad; its aircraft were lost or taken by the Tanzanians. After Idi...
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  • In October 1978 Uganda invaded the Kagera Salient in northern Tanzania, initiating the UgandaTanzania War. The Ugandans met light resistance and in November...
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  • Tito Okello (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    loyalist Uganda Army troops. Okello took part in the UgandaTanzania War. He was one of the commanders in the coalition between the Tanzania People's...
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    Fall of Kampala (category UgandaTanzania War)
    Kampala), was a battle during the UgandaTanzania War in 1979, in which the combined forces of Tanzania and the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF)...
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  • Juma Butabika (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    commanding an unauthorised attack on Tanzania in October 1978, Butabika was responsible for the outbreak of the UgandaTanzania War which ultimately resulted in...
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  • Fred Rwigyema (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    colonial power. In 1979, he joined the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), which together with Tanzanian armed forces captured Kampala in April 1979...
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  • loyal to ex-President Milton Obote during the UgandaTanzania War (1978–1979) and eventually joined the Uganda National Liberation Front which formed the...
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  • Godwin Sule (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    soldiers in the Uganda Army during Amin's rule, Sule was tasked with leading the last major Ugandan counter-offensive during the UgandaTanzania War of 1978–79...
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  • Andrew Mukooza (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    was a Ugandan military officer who served as the last head of the Uganda Army Air Force before its destruction during the UgandaTanzania War of 1978–79...
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  • during the UgandaTanzania War, but remnants continued to operate in exile from 1979. These pro-Amin rebel forces continued to be called the "Uganda Army"...
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  • David Musuguri (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    But I can assure you, there is no war that is good. War means killing. —Musuguri's reflection on the UgandaTanzania War Though reportedly illiterate, Musuguri...
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    insurgency. Meanwhile, pro-Tanzanian rebel groups were reorganized to become Uganda's new regular military. After the UgandaTanzania War, fighters available...
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  • Juma Oris (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    was a Ugandan military officer and government minister under the dictatorship of Idi Amin. After fleeing his country during the UgandaTanzania War, he...
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  • Yusuf Gowon (category Military personnel of the UgandaTanzania War)
    and strategy came to the fore when the UgandaTanzania War broke out in 1978, and his leadership of the Uganda Army during this conflict was extensively...
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    Battle of Lukaya (category UgandaTanzania War)
    UgandaTanzania War. It was fought on 10 and 11 March 1979 around Lukaya, Uganda, between Tanzanian forces (supported by Ugandan rebels) and Ugandan government...
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  • to Uganda Ugandan nationality law, the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act UgandaTanzania War, 1978–1979 war in Africa Ugandan Bush War, Guerrilla...
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    Amin during the UgandaTanzania War (1978–1979). A force consisting of the Tanzania People's Defence Force's 201st Brigade and the Uganda National Liberation...
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  • Panapress, 2004. Acheson-Brown, Daniel G. (2001). "The Tanzanian Invasion of Uganda: A Just War?" (PDF). International Third World Studies Journal and...
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